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In this March 1, 2009, file photo, then-Louisville's Andre McGee pretends to have trouble hearing the cheers of fans after scoring during the second half of their NCAA college basketball game Associated Press

Basketball coach accused of paying for stripteases and sex acts for players

Former escort Katina Powell says she was paid $10,000 to bring dancers onto campus.

A FORMER BASKETBALL coach at the University of Louisville paid for exotic dancers to perform stripteases and sex acts for some players and their guardians, ESPN reported today.

The television network’s “Outside the Lines” program carried an interview with former escort Katina Powell who alleged an assistant Lousville coach paid her $10,000 to bring dancers onto campus for players between 2010 and 2014.

The coach, Andre McGee, who is currently on administrative leave from his job at Missouri-Kansas City, approached Powell about arranging “side deals” with current players, some recruits and their associates.

Those deals included stripping and performing sex acts, Powell told the program.

One Louisville player recruited by the university told ESPN one party felt “like I was in a strip club.”

Another former Louisville player told ESPN that McGee had given him $1 bills to tip dancers.

Louisville head coach Rick Pitino said he was unaware of the stripping and sex parties, urging McGee to address the allegations.

NIT CLEMSON LOUISVILLE BASKETBALL Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino talks with Andre McGee, 2006 Associated Press Associated Press

“Not myself, not one player, not one trainer, not one assistant, not one person knew anything about any of this,” the Hall of Fame coach said.

If anyone did, it would have been stopped on a dime. Not one person knew anything about it.

Powell, 42, has written a book detailing the allegations, entitled “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen.”

The book alleges nearly two dozen parties took place between 2010 and 2014 at a campus dorm.

Louisville’s athletic department declined to comment directly on “Outside the Lines”, saying in a statement it was withholding a formal response to “preserve the integrity of the review process.”

Read: Pope apologises after reports of priests using drugs and paying for sex with homeless men>

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    Mute Spoddgy
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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:00 PM

    Good for team bonding!!

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    Mute Alan Wiley
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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:07 PM

    Good for team bondage.

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:04 PM

    What’s the issue?
    Sounds like a great incentive. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
    Wasn’t there a coach a few years back who rewarded his players with sexual favours from his wife?
    They romped their way through the league.

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:21 PM

    Ivana Bacik wants to have them all arrested and charged for doing exactly that.

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:24 PM

    Only if they’re white, non-story if not

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:36 PM

    EireBlood proving that he’s not the brightest again…. Yes EireBlood, everyone involved in basketball is black……..

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:48 PM

    didn’t say that Jam, was replying to the idea of Ivana Bacik arresting players……only if they’re white, otherwise, she wouldn’t bother….whose the dope now?

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    Oct 20th 2015, 11:40 PM

    The strippers and hookers are not an issue, the college paying for services that would not be available to normal students or boosting athletes

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:19 PM

    Joe Schmidt are you reading this?

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:35 PM

    Lol

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:03 PM

    10k she did well out of that, not to mention the book deal. She could have always have said no of course, but that would be asking too much apparently.

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:25 PM

    10 grand for 4 years? She must be pretty cheap in fairness.

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:01 PM

    a prince amongst men

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:18 PM

    I’m 5 foot nothing, but I’ll hand wash the kit to work for a boss like that!! gerrup!!

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:17 PM

    Is there some outrage I’m missing out on? This is the journal, so Im guessing they want us to be outraged

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    Oct 20th 2015, 11:29 PM

    he wasn’t coach McGee for nuttin’

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:16 PM

    That’s a top boss!!

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:24 PM

    Slam Spunk!!

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    Oct 20th 2015, 11:07 PM

    so what’s the issue ?

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    Oct 20th 2015, 10:46 PM

    lack of self-esteem in your comment – it isn’t height that makes you, it’s what in your heart and soul that does, Irish-American WW2 most decorated soldier Audie Murphy was 5’3 or something like that and there are some smaller basketball players with agility that trounces the more lumbering taller players – paying for sordid degeneracy, says far more that is bad about you then anyone’s height ever could, short or tall
    Muggsy Bogues Profile 5′ 3″
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdTkvnfrlvw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXz2KvpHr9k
    believe in yourself, have some pride, washing the kit my ar$e, the boss is a tosser and so are you if that’s how you treat your woman

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    Oct 21st 2015, 7:52 AM

    you ok hun?? xx

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    Oct 21st 2015, 1:15 PM

    “accused”? That implies wrongdoing…am I missing something here?

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